But this week's postal reform is 'a thing of world-wide interest, a thing of history, touching the very polities and social and industrial developments of a large part of the population of a couple of hemispheres, Statesmen of all parties have been telling us for a generation or two that a penny post across the oceans was but a dream, outside the region of the practical politics of the time; und here, since I wrote my Inst iweek's letter, the Duke of Norfolk has given us a Penny Post system between Grent Britain on the one side, and Canada, Cape Colony, Natal, and probably the Crown Colonies and India on the other. It is a thing alone whereby to remember this Parliament and the Parliamentary and Administrative history of 1898.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.